Word: rotunds
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...Roving, rotund Elliot Paul has focused his shrewd eyes on a good many different communities in his 58 years. What he saw in the doomed Balaeric village of Santa Eulalia made moving reading in The Life and Death of a Spanish Town. One short street on the Left Bank furnished material for a bawdy but penetrating look at pre-war France in The Last Time I Saw Paris...
...rotund phrases he pointed out, in the midst of negotiations for a new contract, that a three-day week would both spread the work and shore up coal prices...
...their rotund, accommodating little friends made their debut in March. Sailors on H.M.S. Ganges formed a Shmoo club, English farmers reported that hens were laying Shmoo-shaped eggs, and subscribers sent Shmoo-shaped potatoes. But the postman also brought a mailbag of protests. Reader R.E. Wilkinson thought Shmoos were definitely un-British. Wrote he: "The Shmoos are encouraging the very characteristics that are ruining this country ... lazy-mindedness and the deliberate pursuit of everything that is slovenly and American." A Mrs. Collins found the drawing "ridiculous" and the language "unintelligible...
...Punch's well-ensconced readers would not be startled from their armchairs: they had chuckled over the cartoons of rotund Cyril Kenneth Bird, 61, for years. As art editor, Bird, a jolly, crinkly little man, has been responsible for much of the streamlining of Punch in recent years. He had worked under quiet and gracious Editor Edmund George Valpy Knox* ("Evoe" to his readers), who was now retiring at 67. Bird will take over as editor next All Fools...
...rotund Tennessean takes considerable pressure off his squad by assuming it himself. Hickman has been in New Haven for only half a year and is fast becoming a legend. His prodigious appetite, his great girth, the license plate that says "HICK," and the famous stories about the folks back home all eat up news inches, while the Yale team forges ahead undisturbed by the intense light of relentless publicity...